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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'On turning to "The Magazine of Natural History" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that Miscellany, that early June 1827, he was at Buxton, w...John Cole Dovaston[article on Thomas Bewick]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black La...John Cole Thomas Frognall DibdinBibliographical DecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black La...John Cole DelanyLife of King DavidPrint: Book
1800-1849'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black La...John Cole John GayChoir, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended to us...'John Marsh [Anon]The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell youPrint: Book
1850-1899'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this ...Florence Elizabeth Crompton [n/a]Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing himself chiefly in reading Euripides'. Samuel Johnson Euripides Print: Book
1900-1945'On Wednesdays the bells of St. Michael's Church on the neighbouring hill pealed for a service or, as some said, "choir practice". They filled me with dread, a reminder o...Wilfred Ruprecht Bion Frederick W. FarrarEric, or, Little by LittlePrint: Book
1900-1945'On with "Ambassadors" and some of Jane Harrison's "Ancient Art and Ritual": which makes me fear I shall never rise to the rarer heights of folklore and anthropology.'Ronald Storrs Jane Ellen HarrisonAncient Art and RitualPrint: Book
1800-1849'On WM Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey Whilst Butler needy wretch! was yet alive, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel Wesley ('the Younger')On the Setting up of Mr Butler's MonumentUnknown
1900-1945'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an...Jack Jones Leo Tolstoy[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an...Jack Jones Fyodor Dostoevsky[most works]Print: Book
1900-1945'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an...Jack Jones Maxim Gorky[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles and Studies" before its original publication in 1876...Oscar Wilde John Pentland MahaffyRambles and StudiesManuscript: proofs
1850-1899'Once he gave out to Laura's class two verses of "The Ancient Mariner", reading them through first, then dictating them very slowly'.Flora Thompson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Once I planned that we should spend the evening reading Slowacki, and all day I kept looking forward to it. After supper we sat as usual in the living room. I began with...Aniela Zagorska Juliusz SlowackiGrob AgamemnonaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for a time gave me some trouble, which put me upon maki...Thomas Carter [unknown]The Assembly's CatechismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read and could not, as he said, think of anything likely...Flora Thompson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read and could not, as he said, think of anything likely...Flora Thompson William ThackeryVanity FairPrint: Book
1800-1849'Once more amongst the old gigantic hills/...' 'Foreign Literary Review Janury 1832.'Bowly group [n/a]Foreign Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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